ethernet switch and IP address

[Dinboise]

I had a dyndns host name and address, and even had a dyn updater from the dyndns folks which worked most awesome for a while; but at some point, it stopped updating and my host was gone; and I hadn't really cared because I so rarely access my ISY from far away. But, of course, I began to care lately with the holidays (being out of town and having people house sit). I reviewed my notes and feel the only new things about my set up are 1) addition of a second Mobilinc app on my wife's new iTouch; and 2) the introduction of an ethernet switch between the router and Isy99 so that I can send info to the TV and TIVO box. I did not think that should be a problem as they will be given their own addresses as needed and the ISY, I thought, would maintain it's static address. Did I mess something up?

 

Sorry I touched it.

 

David

[Dinboise]

OK - I got the IP address right and all other setting and it seems to work. So now it is back to the drawing board with an appropriate free DNS hosting site.

[polexian]

If you dont log in to dyndns for a period of time with a free account then it will remove your forwarded url.

[arw01]

It's not free, but I have been using dreamhost for a few years on their crazy insane domain account. About $11 a month which basically gives me unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage (although they claim they only allow 50gbs for backup (I have a _bit_ more than that used). They support vanity urls so I send my isy requests there with a customer url off my web domain. Also use it to route my mail, etc.

 

There is full shell access, mysql, perl etc, so it is literally like having a server in a rack someplace far off.

[apostolakisl]

no-ip.com still has free dyndns hosting.